Hidden Worlds
Caverns offer something for everyone. "Tak Be Ha," (the
place of hidden waters) is one of the the most heavily decorated
of the caverns and is accessible by a ladder. Best seen by swimming,
snorkel tours are available daily. Other very popular attractions
in the park include snorkel tours of the "Bat Cave," "Tak
Bi Luum" (the hidden world), and "Hilario's Well."
For Open Water certified SCUBA divers, professionally guided diving
tours of the caverns are also available. Several of these caverns
appear in the "Journey into Amazing Caves" film. Hidden
Worlds Park is located near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico and is open
year round.

Naracoorte is
double endowed with Nature’s gifts – the Naracoorte Caves Conservation
Park and Bool Lagoon. Both are internationally renowned with the
Caves being inscribed onto the World Heritage List in 1994 and Bool
Lagoon recognised by RAMSAR as a wetland of international importance.
The Naracoorte Caves World Heritage Area contains 26 caves of which
many contain extensive fossil deposits. The fossil record extends
back perhaps 500,000 years, research of the last 30 years yielding
amazing fossils of extinct animals such as Thylacoleo, the marsupial
lion, and many giant leaf eating kangaroos.

Cave and Basin
is, as the name says, a cave with a hot spring inside. In autumn
1883 the cave and the hot springs were discovered by William and
Tom McCardell, and their partner Frank McCabe. They planned to gain
ownership of the springs and then build a bathing resort. But the
ownership was not easy to gain, the arguments escalated into a legal
battle. The government was called to settle the dispute. As they
already planned to make a National Park, and this location was ideal,
they declared it as Canada's first National Park.

Altitude: 235
meters above sea level Depth:
30 meters Length:
Three kilometers
Type: Tunnel cave formed by underground river flowing through limestone
rock Conditions:
Some poorly ventilated areas of the cave, such as the Inferno are
crowded with bats. The heat of their bodies and the smell of ammonia
from their urine combine to make breathing difficult. While we can
not reproduce these conditions in the Bat Cave, this tour gives
some hint of what it is like to visit St. Clair cave.

The Cango Caves
is one of the worlds great natural wonders, sculptured by nature
through the ages - fascinating limestone formations in a wide variety
of colours. An underground wonderworld. Trained guides are at hand
to conduct visitors along the magic paths of the world's finest
stalactite cave. According to legend the caves were discovered during
1780. Early visitors had to brave the pitch darkness of the vast
caverns from the poor light of self made candles.

Established
to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within a Permian-age
fossil reef, the park contains over 85 known caves, including Lechuguilla
Cave—the nation's deepest limestone cave at 1,567 feet (478m) and
third longest. Carlsbad Cavern, with one of the world's largest
underground chambers and countless formations, is highly accessible,
with a variety of tours offered year-round. Photo courtesy of the
Cavern Supply Company.

The entrance
of the cave is in a pub. The Grottes des Tunnels is located at the
Ardeche Valley Road, close to the Pont d'Arc. This road winds along
the Ardèche valley, sometimes at the banks of the river, sometimes
above the valley on the plateau. Here, near the Pont d'Arc the road
is very close to the river. But there is one problem: The valley
narrows and the river flows through the Pont d'Arc. So the road
has to use a tunnel.

The Gutenberger
Höhle is primarly of palaeontologic interest. In the entrance area,
called Heppenloch, the remains of middle pleistocene animals were
found. The found animals include rhinoceros, cave bear, cave lion
and wild horses. Unique for the Swabian Jura are findings of monkeys
(Macaca sylvana suevica) and wolf. The excavation was the very first
action of the new founded Schwäbischer Höhlenverein. The Heppenloch
is freely accessible. The cave tour shows the rest of the cave,
which was discovered during the first excavations. During additional
excavations in 1893, Karl Gußmann found a 1 m long tusk, 200 m deep
in the cave. It is not clear, how the tusk got there.

Antiparos is
a small island, at the southwest of the bigger island of Paros.
It has an area of 35 km2. The Cave of Antiparos is known for many
years and has always been used as a place of refuge. Inscriptions
on the stalactites witness the vistits of personalities like Marquis
de Novandel (1673), Bishop de Gabrie (1673), Othon King of Greece
(1840). There is an inscription describing a Christmas mass in 1673,
held in honour of the French ambassador to Constantinople, Marquis
de Novandel, who paid 500 people from Antiparos and Paros to take
part. In the war of 1700-1774 some of the stalactites were cut off
and carried to the museum of Petrograd by Russian officers.

Dunmore Cave
is described in folklore as the mouth of a huge beast, with ten
thousand teeth above his head and as many under his feet. The huge,
imposing entrance, has been known for centuries, but it is only
comparatively recently that it has been fully explored. Until the
seventeenth century caves were regarded with dread and awe as being
entrances to Hell. From the eighteenth century onwards a number
of visitors, including scientists and historians, have written about
the cave. Research on geological and historical aspects of the cave
has been pursued making it one of the best documented cave sites
in Europe.

Kungur Ice Cave
is located in the vicinity of the ancient town of Kungur, 100km
to the south-east of Perm city. Quaintly ramified passages stretch
under the ground for over 6000 metres. And this is only the part
which has already been explored. To this day old slides and crumblings
do not allow to to determine the total length of the passages. In
the explored part of the cave there are several dozens of grottoes.
The largest one, which is called the Druzhba (Friendship) Grotto,
was given its name in honour of the participants of the International
Geological Congress who visited the cave in 1937. Grottoes are "adorned"
with columns of stalagmites and icicles of stalactites up to two
metres in height.

One of the world's
longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie,
ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features
of the park. The cave is well known for its outstanding display
of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins
resembling honeycombs. The park's mixed grass prairie is one of
the few remaining.

One hundred
twenty years have passed since John and George Pickett of Colorado
Springs squeezed through a dusty hole to discover a pristine cavern
full of mystery and adventure. Using candles to illuminate their
way, the Pickett boys and their Boys Exploring Association were
the first to see the wonders of inner Cave of the Winds, today one
of the most popular privately owned commercial caves in the United
States.

Blanchard Springs
Caverns's three levels offer something for everyone. The Dripstone
Trail is the most heavily decorated section of the caverns and is
accessible to wheelchairs. The Discovery Trail follows the path
taken by early explorers. The Wild Cave Tour allows visitors to
experience the undeveloped section of the caverns. Sections of both
the Dripstone and Discovery Trails appear in the "Journey into
Amazing Caves" film. Blanchard Springs Caverns is located in
the Ozark National Forest and is open year round.

Geology: The
caves are formed in the Leadville limestone which was deposited
approximately 325 million years ago.

Location: The
caves are located on top of Iron Mountain, just north of Glenwood
Springs, Colorado. The tour begins at the Glenwood Caverns Gift
Shop & Museum conveniently located next to the historic Hotel Colorado
at 508 Pine Street.

Cave Temperature:
A cool and comfortable 52 degrees.

Elevation: 7100
feet Feet of Passageway: Approximately 3 miles of surveyed passageway
with new passageways continually being discovered.